There’s another Columbus writer (I don’t like the word blogger) that I read from time to time, she does excellent restaurant reviews and food related things. She is (dramatic pause) the Restaurant Widow. Check out her site if you haven’t already. http://www.restaurantwidow.com/
Typically Thanksgiving kicks off the “holiday season” where we focus on friends and family and being nice, but also buying lots of crap we usually don’t need. Instead of waiting until New Year’s for resolutions, I’m feeling kind of inspired this Thanksgiving. (See my last post.) With that in mind, I liked Lisa’s manifesto, here are a few quotes from it.
“Cake day became the highlight of my job. If I missed cake day, I was actually disappointed the next day. I was sad about missing grocery store cake… I wasn’t healthy, I had all sorts of tummy issues, I couldn’t eat, I was an anxious wreck, and I felt I could not survive another minute under the florescent lights in our office, I applied for a promotion and I didn’t get it. It was time for a change.
“I had a moment of crisis – I started studying for the LSAT, I looked into going back to school for my teaching certification, and then it hit me. I was trying to do all these things to make other people happy, so I could quit my job in a frenzy and say “see? I’m am smart! I’m going to law school!” (I never said I was mature.) I was purposefully delaying my writing career out of fear. I retired to my first job, restaurant work. For about the same amount of money. Of course, there’s no 401K, but there is a 30 hour work week. And good food. And witty banter. And the only stress melts away the moment I leave the building.
“…Why did I tell you all of this? Because in my last year at Giant Clothing Retailer, I made a New Year’s resolution to start writing. Some people decry resolutions, but I think they’re great. People have celebrated their various New Years by ritualizing regrowth, renewal, etc. for thousands of years, and there must be a reason. It’s a good time to take stock and analyze our paths. In the past I have made resolutions to not eat fast food for a year, to quit smoking, and to have some writing published. I have kept all of those, even if some of them took longer than a year to accomplish. I’m just saying if you have a dream you’ve been putting off, it might be the right time to re-investigate it.
